First Party Fraud Analyst Senior: Mid- Level - USAA

Why USAA?

Let’s do something that really matters.
At USAA, we have an important mission: facilitating the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. Not all our employees served in our nation’s military, but we all share in the mission to give back to those who did. We’re working as one to build a great experience and make a real impact for our members.

We believe in our core values of honesty, integrity, loyalty, and service. They’re what guides everything we do – from how we treat our members to how we treat each other. Come be a part of what makes us so special!

As a dedicated First Party Fraud Analyst, Senior you will be an individual contributor for the First Party Fraud team within Financial Crimes. Leverages advance understanding within Financial Crimes space and with team members and can solution towards the strategic business direction. You will take ownership of small- and large-scale analyses or business strategy using innovative/quantitative analytical approaches. Independently extract insights from data to design solutions within the Financial Crimes space through a range of data preparation, modeling, and visualization techniques, including predictive analysis, pattern recognition and/or Machine Learning. Use key skills include association rule learning, cluster analysis, anomaly detection, data analysis and visualization (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau), object-oriented programming (Python, SAS). Understand the business direction, environment and strategies for First Party Fraud, to identify and recommend solutions which influence the business and inspire change. Advocate for self and teammates to encourage the growth of direct and indirect peers toward continual technical and soft skill progression. Ensures risks associated with business activities are optimally identified, measured, supervised, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado Springs, CO, Charlotte, NC, or Tampa, FL. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

This position can also work remotely in the continental U.S. with occasional business travel.

The Opportunity

What you'll do:

• Leverages advanced business, analytical and technical knowledge to participate or lead discussions with cross functional teams to understand and collaborate highly complex business objectives and influence solution strategies.

• Applies advanced analytical techniques to solve business problems that are typically medium to large scale with significant impact to current and/or future business strategy.

• Applies innovative and scientific/quantitative analytical approaches to draw conclusions and make 'insight to action' recommendations to answer the business objective and drive the appropriate change.

• Translates recommendation into communication materials to effectively present to various levels of management.

• Incorporates visualization techniques to support the relevant points of the analysis and ease the understanding for less technical audiences.

• Identifies and gathers the relevant and quality data sources required to fully answer and address the problem for the recommended strategy through testing or exploratory data analysis (EDA).

• Integrates/transforms disparate data sources and determines the appropriate data hygiene techniques to apply.

• Thoroughly documents assumptions, methodology, validation and testing to facilitate peer reviews and compliance requirements.

• Understands and adopts emerging technology that can affect the application of scientific methodologies and/or quantitative analytical approaches to problem resolutions.

• Succinctly delivers analysis/findings in a manner that conveys understanding, influences various levels of management, garners support for recommendations, drives business decisions, and influences business strategy.

• Provides subject matter expertise in operationalizing recommendations.

• Remains informed on current data and analytics trends, (Ex: Cloud, Data Mining, Python, Neural Networks, Sensor data, IoT, Streaming/NRT data)

• Identifies opportunities to continue to learn in the data and analytics space, whether informal (E.g., Coursera, Udemy, Kaggle, Code Up, etc) or formal (E.g. Certifications or advanced coursework).

• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative analytics field such as Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, Operations Research, Data and/or Business Analysis, Data Science, or other quantitative discipline; OR 4 years of related experience in statistics, mathematics, or quantitative analytics (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.

• 6 years of data & analytics experience

• OR

• a minimum of 4 years of data & analytics experience and up to 2 years of progressive functional business relevant experience within the respective industry of responsibility (i.e. P&C, Bank, Finance, Marketing etc.) for a total of 6 years combined experience.

• OR

• advanced degree in quantitative analytics field such as Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, Operations Research, Data and/or Business Analysis, Data Science or other quantitative discipline and 4 years of experience in data/analytics or functional business experience within the respective industry of responsibility (i.e. P&C, Bank, Finance, Marketing, etc.).

• Demonstrates advanced skills in mathematical and statistical techniques and approaches used to drive fact-based decision-making.

• Advanced knowledge of data analysis tools, data visualization, developing analysis queries and procedures in SQL, SAS, BI tools or other analysis software, and relevant industry data & methods and ability to connect external insights to business problems.

• Experience with new and emerging data sets, and incorporation (data wrangling, data munging) into new insights.

What sets you apart:

• Previous First-party fraud strategy experience.

• Expertise with Model Risk Management and associated documentation and routines.

• Knowledge in at least one product area with first-hand experience building strategies to prevent fraud within that product utilizing the supporting tools.

• Experienced in multiple coding languages ie: SQL/ SAS/ Python and versed in the use of visualization tools ie: Tableau.

• Problem solver whose developed strategies and rules independently solving unique fraud attacks in inventive ways

• Experience developing fraud related reporting and can interpret existing reports to maintain fraud losses and identify variance from historical norms to target ongoing or future attacks

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and a basic understanding of statistics.

• Strong communication skills, attention to detail and passion for excellence.

• US military experience through military service or a military spouse/domestic partner

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

What we offer:

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location. The salary range for this position is: $109,130-$208,580.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits, please visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.